Outsourcing the Data Center Ingvi Stígsson

Why new Data Center? ● Old Data Center not secure enough o Wooden ceiling o Has water pipes ● Too long wait for a new building o The need has been discussed for many years ● Too expensive to upgrade the old building

New Data Center ● External partner: Basis o ISO Certified o PCI-DSS o Hosts many companies ● Alþingi owns the hardware o Has it own “server rack”

The migration planning ● The planning and preparation took some months o Deciding which hardware should be moved o Move servers into virtual servers o Consolidate data that should be moved onto one SAN o Connection

Connections ● Between Alþingi and Basis o Primary connection through “Dark Fiber” (1Gb/s) o Secondary connection through IP 100Mb/s ● Internet connection via Basis

Traffic from January

Storage Area Network ● EMC (26TB)-> IBM (16TB) o Storage solution from EMC was left behind o New storage solution from IBM installed  All servers using SAN need to talk to IBM SAN  All data relevant data moved to IBM SAN solution (8TB) ● EMC still used for security cameras recordings (12TB)

Servers ● Before moving to Basis o Moving most servers Xen (virtual server) o VMware virtual servers moved to Xen ● 8 physicals servers moved o Sun x1 o Xen (SuperMicro) x1 with 36 virtual servers o Linux x5 o Windows x1

Servers left behind ● IBM DataBlade Center ● Some physical servers ● Mostly related to o Security (video servers, access servers, lights servers) o Encoder for live broadcasting and VOD o Audio recording

Also left behind ● Telephone station ● Network switches ● The fiber cable connection

The moving plan ● Saturday o Start at 6:00 - shutdown servers and start packing o Truck arrives at 7:30 o Police escort at 8:30 o Unpacking starts at 9:00, servers booted when ready o Testing if everything works at 11:00 ● Sunday o Employees at Basis and Alþingi should be standby

Problems ● Sun server does not boot normally

Problems ● Sun server does not boot normally ● Xen does not boot normally

Problems ● Sun server does not boot normally ● Xen does not boot normally ● Paths to EMC still in the configuration

Experience so far ● Mostly running smoothly ● One major incident in May o Earthquake o Problems in one aluminum smelter o Leads to power surge in the national power system

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Thank you for listening Any questions?